Chapter 912: British Naval Battle

In the dark of night, the Yamato was suddenly attacked, and the entire Japanese Combined Fleet was in a panic. It can be clearly seen on the radar, the number of ships on the other side is more than five times that of theirs, there are more than 100 warships, and the Yamato is damaged and they are scattered in formation, how can this meet the enemy! Of course, Tsuboi Kozo, who was beaten with a stick, did not panic at all, and the leather of the Yamato made him feel very confident that as long as all the members entered the combat position, there would be nothing on his side.

"Full left rudder, full speed ahead, return fire! Bite them to death! Immediately send a telegram to His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, reporting that our fleet has discovered the main force of the expeditionary fleet, and asking the main force to move closer to us and encircle and annihilate the enemy! Tsuboi Kozo quickly gave the battle order, and at the same time looked at Akiyama Mayuki with some sympathy.

Akiyama Shinyuki's seven-stage strike plan is actually very reasonable, it perfectly makes use of the reconnaissance advantages of the Manchurian Air Force and radar, and turns the advantage into combat effectiveness through the high speed of the Manchurian Navy. It's a pity that providence makes people! The high-tech means of the Manchurian Army were that they failed to discover the shadow of the expeditionary fleet. I originally wanted to sneak attack people at night, but he let people sneak attack, and it doesn't take a few hits, just call the main force to fight!

"Your Excellency Commander, please immediately call the Musashi to move closer to our ship, and then directly attack the enemy formation and disrupt the enemy formation. With the level of armor of our army, there should be no major surprises. At the same time, it can order Izumo and other ships to quickly outflank the enemy fleet from the right flank and help complete the division of the enemy ships! "Akiyama Shinyuki is still very impatient, and he quickly worked out an emergency battle plan. His plan was based on the fighting style of Xiaomeng and Ape Sheng in the Battle of the Yellow Sea in Bian Changdi, crushing the enemy formation with an absolutely superior giant ship, and then using other auxiliary ships to fight guerrilla attacks to hit the enemy's small and medium-sized ships to the greatest extent. Akiyama Mayuki can't help it, his seven-stage attack plan, the first two stages are definitely out of play, and now he can only try to ensure that the next few paragraphs still have a chance to be used.

"Okay, execute!" Tsuboi Kozo is still very optimistic about the younger generation of Akiyama Shinyuki.

"I'll go! Double ring! "While the Yamato waited for the Musashi to approach, it kept counterattacking the enemy ships, and the nine 460 mm large-caliber naval guns kept roaring. When the Yamato fired a salvo at a battleship with a tonnage of no less than 20,000 tons four thousand meters away, Xu Chongming, the political commissar of the fleet, saw an incredible scene in the telescope. A shell actually pierced directly through the enemy ship, exploding in its back, and the power of the explosion directly overturned an enemy ship of five or six thousand tons behind.

Although the Manchurian naval artillery used a hood hood* is a shell with two layers of caps, it is still very sensitive, and unless the opponent is unarmoured, it is impossible to pass through it directly. The ship that capsized directly because of the explosion was even more ridiculous, it was not directly hit at all, at most it was just a near-miss. No matter how powerful a 460 mm shell is, it is impossible to overturn the ship directly by the power of the explosion!

"What a quirky opponent! It's not going to be a conspiracy, is it? "Tsuboi Hangzo is a little weak-hearted, and the other party's combat power is too nonsense. As the other ships of the Japanese Combined Fleet arrived, the exchange of fire between the two armies became very intense, and Tsuboi found that not only the Yamato and Musashi were very resistant to beating, but all the ships of the Combined Fleet were very resistant to beating, and they were all painless after being hit.

There seemed to be a grand fireworks display on the sea, and the two sides were fighting very fiercely. By dawn, Kozo Tsuboi had achieved a result that he could not have believed, and the Japanese Combined Fleet sank 37 enemy ships and seriously damaged 18 enemy ships at the cost of lightly injuring five of its own ships. This result is really a bit unbelievable, even if it is a target ship, it is difficult to achieve such a result. However, even so, the expeditionary fleet still has about 100 warships, and its strength is still very strong.

"Inform the Air Force to immediately take all of them into the air, search the area near the nearby Torres Strait, and be sure to ensure the safety of the route for the supply fleet of the Talnan Advance Corps!" Botun also arrived after daybreak, but when he arrived, he felt that he had been tricked, and hurriedly asked the air force to cover Tar's rear.

There are many warships in the British and French expeditionary fleets, and the cannon barrels can be seen very clearly, but no matter how awkward you look at it, it is not at all the configuration that the main fleet should have. During the day, the light was good, and Bolton could clearly see the enemy ship through the telescope, and he always felt that the enemy ship was a little shoddy. However, after all, they are aggressive, and Botun can only command his main fleet to form a battle line formation, preparing to have a British duel with the other party. But after the formation was lined up, Botun hesitated, and did not give the order for a general attack for a long time, because the actions of the British and French expeditionary fleets were too strange, and Botun could not understand what they were going to do.

Under normal circumstances, the battle lines of the two armies are formed, and then they are slowly approaching, and the inclined fire is pulled to the death. However, the situation of the British and French expeditionary fleets was very strange, they kept retreating, neither seizing the T-head nor moving flexibly, but drove straight to the west. He analyzed that Britain and France wanted to avoid the shortcomings of the Manchurian Army, which was inferior in speed, and deliberately let the Manchurian Army overtake them, and then seize the T head from the rear. However, in doing so, not only did the success rate be low, but it was also easy to get rid of by the Manchurian army.

"Commander-in-chief, how do I feel that the formation of the Anglo-French expeditionary fleet seems to be about to run?" Ding Shengping, the combat staff officer of Botun, looked at this formation more and more strangely, and after ruling out a variety of possibilities, he thought of a very outrageous possibility.

"Run? Let the Sea Tiger Formation copy the front, intercept them and try it, you can't run! "In fact, Bolton also felt that the posture of the British and French expeditionary fleet was very similar to that of escaping. However, he couldn't believe that the British and French fleets, which had come all the way to a decisive battle, would simply greet them and then slip away directly.

The heavy cruiser formation composed of thirty-six sea tigers quickly circled to the front of the British and French fleets, and then an incredible scene appeared, and the sea tigers actually grabbed the T head very easily. The British and French expeditionary fleets, under extremely unfavorable conditions, suddenly launched an attack on the Sea Tiger formation, and a fierce artillery battle broke out between the two sides. The result was a big surprise, the British and French expeditionary fleets not only had sparse firepower and poor accuracy, but their own armor was also brittle as if it had none. After a round of artillery battles, the sea tigers were unscathed, and the British and French expeditionary fleets sank seven more ships.

"What the is going on?" Botun's brain cells are dead, and they don't understand what happened, even if the fleet in front of them is just bait, they shouldn't be worse than this!

"Commander-in-Chief, white flag, white flag! They surrendered! Ding Shengping saw an even more ridiculous picture in the telescope, more than 100 British and French warships hoisted the white flag almost at the same time, and they chose to surrender.

Botun was stunned for a minute before he gave the order for a ceasefire. Botun had countless ideas about this battle, but he never expected it to be such an ending. Regardless of what Bolton thought, the British and French expeditionary fleet had indeed surrendered, and they soon sent liaison officers to submit the surrender directly to Bolton. Seeing the rank of the other commander, Botun was not good, and the commander-in-chief of the Anglo-French expeditionary fleet was actually only a major general, which was really outrageous. Bolton immediately sent for the ships of the expeditionary fleet, and then took all the prisoners into custody, after which the officers and men who received them came back with a very disappointing news. The warships of the expeditionary fleet are all model, the shell is a warship, and inside is a merchant ship at all, and the armor, artillery, etc., are all models made of thin iron sheets.

"Find it right away, their real fleet is likely to be nearby, and they are very likely to sneak up on Tár's transport fleet!" Botun immediately gave the order for a comprehensive search, this Anglo-French expeditionary fleet that attracted them was fake, where is it really and where is it!

Aircraft, warships, radars, and other means that can be used are all used, and the so-called real Anglo-French expeditionary fleet still does not even have a shadow, as if they do not exist at all. After three days of painstaking searching, all efforts were declared futile, and unless the British and French possessed stealth technology, there would certainly not be a true Anglo-French expeditionary fleet. At the Fuzhou Station of the Military Intelligence Bureau, a comprehensive interrogation was conducted on all the captured British and French seamen, and the commander-in-chief of the major general even subjected the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the ten major tortures, and then also came to the conclusion that there was no such thing as a true expeditionary fleet. There was only one Anglo-French expeditionary fleet, and that was the group that surrendered to Botun, and as for the so-called main Anglo-French naval forces, they had never been to the Pacific at all.

It did take Britain and France several years to build a number of warships capable of fighting the Manchurian Navy, and indeed prepared to form an Anglo-French expeditionary fleet to fight the Manchurian Navy in the Pacific, but the situation in Eastern Europe changed everything. When the British judged that war would break out between Russia and Germany, they quickly recruited a large number of merchant ships and converted them into a group of intimidating-looking warships. Then, after Bismarck's visit to London, this fleet with only a shell set out and entered India with great fanfare, attracting everyone's attention, but in fact they had no combat effectiveness. After the intelligence was gathered, Changchun instantly understood that the so-called Anglo-French expeditionary fleet was just a pit dug by the British for the Germans, and Australia had been abandoned by the British.

Sure enough, no sooner had Goshinga sent a telegram warning the Germans than the news of the heavy damage to the German navy came back. On the morning of the same day that Tsuboi Kozo encountered the Hull Fleet, the German High Seas Fleet engaged in a fierce battle with the real British and French main fleets in the waters of Jutland. The German navy fought tenaciously and bravely, and even sank the most advanced British Hood, but they thought that the main British and French fleets were in Asia, but they still suffered a heavy blow because of lack of preparation. Seven of the main German ships were sunk and five were seriously wounded, leaving the High Seas Fleet a presence that could only operate in its home port.

"Damn, the Brit is better at cheating than me!" Guo Xing'a, who fell for a while, was very convinced, and the British were really better than monkeys.